Word: coercion
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Second, such coercion, if permitted, irreparably damages and would ultimately destroy not only the functioning of the University but the personal liberty of its members. The only way the University can protect itself against physical violence or obstruction by nonstudents is to institute proceedings in the courts...
...Traditionally, a person with a baptism record has the right of membership in a parish. I'm not impressed by that any more. People have got to pay to get into this outfit from now on." The reaction of the flock, which was probably more bothered by the coercion than by the $8 bite, was decisive if not generous. Church membership since the change has dropped from 850 families...
...class. The crisis in Crook, however, is distressingly familiar. Since last spring, taxpayers have rejected the school budget four times, finally settling for a version that was reduced by $90,000. A campaign was also begun to oust the school board; teachers' salaries were slashed by virtual coercion; a circuit court judge was called in to settle a ballot dispute; and campaigners on both sides were investigated by a grand jury. "All values were sacrificed to the cause," laments a local minister. "There was no more love, understanding or charity...
...support of the student strike. He was overruled by the faculty. He also called the police after students occupied an administration building to protest the university's war-related research. Said he: "We seek a victory of reason and the examined life over unreason and the tyranny of coercion...
...only obstacle to utopia," he notes, "is the persistence of the competitive motivational patterns that past scarcity assumptions have spawned. Nothing stands in our way except our invidious dreams of personal glory. Our horror of group coercion reflects our reluctance to relinquish these dreams, although they have brought us nothing but misery, discontent, hatred, and chaos. If we can overcome this horror, however, and mute this vanity, we may again be able to take up our original utopian task...